Title: Parental and Professional Work in Education: A Relationship in Tension
Abstract: This text focuses on a cohort of 20 young children in secondary school characterized by high absenteeism, drop-out, exclusion from school or wandering behaviors. The study was conducted in the last weeks of compulsory schooling and brought together, interviews with youth, 76 interviews conducted with parents, professionals from secondary schools and social workers. Half of these youths come from poor or unstable families, the other half is from working families or middle class. These adolescents, who have been failing for years in school, have difficult relationships with the teachers who consider them as “unmanageable. Against this background of disruptions and crises, relationships between school professionals, social workers and parents become increasingly concerned about absenteeism. This leads to complex interactions between the actors : expulsion and marginalization, injunction and compromise, conflicts and evasion.
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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